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The MAROON March 18, 1983 Vol. 61, No. 21 Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118 Bishops up in arms over arms race By Tim Guillory "We are dealing with the most dangerous moral issue in the public order today," the Most Rev. Thomas Gumbleton, auxiliary bishop of Detroit, said. The discussion, called "The Challenge of Peace" Archbishop Hannan —Photo by John McCusker by the sponsoring New Orleans chapter of Pax Christi, gave rise to heated discussion and equally heated audience response. The program was interrupted many times for applause and, at some points, booing. Some of the audience members applauded for Gumbleton, then for Hannan. Gumbleton spoke in the St. Charles Room on Thursday, March 10, discussing with the Most Rev. Philip M. Hannan, archbishop of New Orleans, the second draft of a pastoral letter which was drawn up by a committee of American Catholic bishops to protest nuclear proliferation. Hannan said after Gumbleton's presentation, "[The letter] does not in my opinion represent a balanced exposition of pacifism in the church. "It is optional for you and for any individual to be a pacifist, and I praise you for it. It is not optional for our government not to defend the rights of their own citizens and the rights of those who expect us to defend them." According to Hannan, not all bishops agree on the conclusions reached by the majority: "The bishops are supposed to be collegial. The German bishops oppose this, as does the German laity." "We called in people from various disciplines, political science, sociology, theology and scripture (studies]. We spent the first 10 months having a dialogue with these people." Gumbleton outlined the four major parts of the pastoral letter: Part I "In this part of the letter we are drawn together to examine teachings on war . . . and to synthesize that teaching of our scriptures, which go back thousands of years, and of the teachings of the Church," Gumbleton said. "In this part," he added, "we say that we are writing this letter to be used by Catholic people or anyone else who is willing as a way of helping to form their conscience ... we fully intend this letter to be the means by which the Catholic Church in the United States becomes involved in the public policy debate that is going on in our nation . . . the most important debate that has ever confronted our country." "We feel that because it is a moral issue, clearly a religious issue, that we as bishops of the Church must speak to the moral issue. We simply have a serious obligation that we must fulfil," Gumbleton said. Part II "We take this theology, examine the current world situation, and we employ the theology. We state clearly and unequivocally," Gumbleton said, "that it is immoral to engage in total population warfare." In regard to limited nuclear war, Gumbleton said that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization strategy is to use nuclear weapons first. Bishop Gumbleton —Photo by John McCusker Gumbleton said that in interviews, "Expert after expert told us that it is their judgment that once we cross that threshold from conventional weapons to nuclear weapons, almost inevitably there would be an all-out nuclear exchange." "It is our judgment that we should move away from that strategy," Gumbleton said. Hunger Week designed to' Fill Ship' By Peter J. Couste 111 It all started in a small classroom at Mercy Academy on Calhoun St., in 1979. Now, an estimated one million people across the United States have joined together to "Fill the Ship" and fight world hunger. It is called the largest youth project in America. Hunger Awareness Week begins Sunday at Loyola, spearheaded by the Loyola University Community Action Program. Thursday is national Starvation Awareness Day. Starvation Awareness Day is a youth project designed to provide food and clothing to Central American refugees. Four years ago social justice/religion teacher, Suzanne Wallace, and her Mercy class of seniors decided to do something about a world problem; they picked hunger. That small group began setting aside prayer and fasting time and then invited other New Orleans high school youths to do the same, always the Thursday before Holy Week. Wallace said the movement spread. "People became excited and pulled together with letters and by word of mouth. It even became ecumenical." "One year a man named Bob Post came to speak to my class," Wallace said, "He worked for Castle and Cook Foods and offered a donation ... a ship, an ocean-going freighter. He said he'd give the ship if the young people would fill it. He also offered to take it to people who needed it. This was the catalyst that led to it being nationwide in 1981." This year there is room for over one million pounds of donated goods to set sail for the seven refugee camps in Honduras. A barge has been donated and sits empty and afloat in Minneapolis/ St. Paul waiting to be filled and launched down the Mississippi River on Sunday to support Starvation Awareness Day. The barge will stop in Davenport, lowa and St. Louis before New Orleans. Half of what is collected in each city will be sent to Honduras, the other half will stay in the collecting city to help fight domestic hunger. In New Orleans, half of the collected donations will go to the Emergency Food Bank. LUCAP will launch its own drive to fight world hunger Monday. Loyola's hunger awareness project, which is sponsorerd by LUCAP and endorsed by the Loyola Union, the Black Student Union, the International Student Association, the Inter- Fraternity Council, Campus Ministry and the Student Government Association, has been designated a national model project for other colleges. The project begins Sunday with hunger related liturgies. Also, booths will be set up in the Danna Center throughout the week to collect donations of money, food coupons and clothing to help All the ship. Monday will mark LUCAP's annual Third World Luncheon. The 12:30 p.m. luncheon is a role-playing activity designed to help people understand the world hunger situation, Herbers said. During the activity, people will be divided into three groups and receive a lunch according to the world which they are in. Tickets for the activity are $2. Tuesday night keynote speakers for the week, former Jamaican prime minister, Michael Manley, and Starvation Awareness Day founder Suzanne Wallace, a Loyola graduate, will speak in Nunemaker Hall. Manley, whose scheduled appearance triggered lengthy debate in the SGA two weeks ago, will give a Third World perspective, according to LUCAP. He will present a history of Third World nations which have previously been subserviant to First World powers. Director of LUCAP Dan Sifferlin said that Manley will speak about the economic and political roots of hunger. Thursday, national Starvation Awareness Day and the high point of the week according to Herbers, the whole community is asked to fast and donate what would have been eaten to "Fill the Ship." Meal cards and other donations will be accepted during regular lunch and dinner hours at hunger booths in the Danna Center mall. See Bishops/page 6

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The MAROON March 18, 1983 Vol. 61, No. 21 Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118 Bishops up in arms over arms race By Tim Guillory "We are dealing with the most dangerous moral issue in the public order today," the Most Rev. Thomas Gumbleton, auxiliary bishop of Detroit, said. The discussion, called "The Challenge of Peace" Archbishop Hannan —Photo by John McCusker by the sponsoring New Orleans chapter of Pax Christi, gave rise to heated discussion and equally heated audience response. The program was interrupted many times for applause and, at some points, booing. Some of the audience members applauded for Gumbleton, then for Hannan. Gumbleton spoke in the St. Charles Room on Thursday, March 10, discussing with the Most Rev. Philip M. Hannan, archbishop of New Orleans, the second draft of a pastoral letter which was drawn up by a committee of American Catholic bishops to protest nuclear proliferation. Hannan said after Gumbleton's presentation, "[The letter] does not in my opinion represent a balanced exposition of pacifism in the church. "It is optional for you and for any individual to be a pacifist, and I praise you for it. It is not optional for our government not to defend the rights of their own citizens and the rights of those who expect us to defend them." According to Hannan, not all bishops agree on the conclusions reached by the majority: "The bishops are supposed to be collegial. The German bishops oppose this, as does the German laity." "We called in people from various disciplines, political science, sociology, theology and scripture (studies]. We spent the first 10 months having a dialogue with these people." Gumbleton outlined the four major parts of the pastoral letter: Part I "In this part of the letter we are drawn together to examine teachings on war . . . and to synthesize that teaching of our scriptures, which go back thousands of years, and of the teachings of the Church," Gumbleton said. "In this part," he added, "we say that we are writing this letter to be used by Catholic people or anyone else who is willing as a way of helping to form their conscience ... we fully intend this letter to be the means by which the Catholic Church in the United States becomes involved in the public policy debate that is going on in our nation . . . the most important debate that has ever confronted our country." "We feel that because it is a moral issue, clearly a religious issue, that we as bishops of the Church must speak to the moral issue. We simply have a serious obligation that we must fulfil," Gumbleton said. Part II "We take this theology, examine the current world situation, and we employ the theology. We state clearly and unequivocally," Gumbleton said, "that it is immoral to engage in total population warfare." In regard to limited nuclear war, Gumbleton said that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization strategy is to use nuclear weapons first. Bishop Gumbleton —Photo by John McCusker Gumbleton said that in interviews, "Expert after expert told us that it is their judgment that once we cross that threshold from conventional weapons to nuclear weapons, almost inevitably there would be an all-out nuclear exchange." "It is our judgment that we should move away from that strategy," Gumbleton said. Hunger Week designed to' Fill Ship' By Peter J. Couste 111 It all started in a small classroom at Mercy Academy on Calhoun St., in 1979. Now, an estimated one million people across the United States have joined together to "Fill the Ship" and fight world hunger. It is called the largest youth project in America. Hunger Awareness Week begins Sunday at Loyola, spearheaded by the Loyola University Community Action Program. Thursday is national Starvation Awareness Day. Starvation Awareness Day is a youth project designed to provide food and clothing to Central American refugees. Four years ago social justice/religion teacher, Suzanne Wallace, and her Mercy class of seniors decided to do something about a world problem; they picked hunger. That small group began setting aside prayer and fasting time and then invited other New Orleans high school youths to do the same, always the Thursday before Holy Week. Wallace said the movement spread. "People became excited and pulled together with letters and by word of mouth. It even became ecumenical." "One year a man named Bob Post came to speak to my class," Wallace said, "He worked for Castle and Cook Foods and offered a donation ... a ship, an ocean-going freighter. He said he'd give the ship if the young people would fill it. He also offered to take it to people who needed it. This was the catalyst that led to it being nationwide in 1981." This year there is room for over one million pounds of donated goods to set sail for the seven refugee camps in Honduras. A barge has been donated and sits empty and afloat in Minneapolis/ St. Paul waiting to be filled and launched down the Mississippi River on Sunday to support Starvation Awareness Day. The barge will stop in Davenport, lowa and St. Louis before New Orleans. Half of what is collected in each city will be sent to Honduras, the other half will stay in the collecting city to help fight domestic hunger. In New Orleans, half of the collected donations will go to the Emergency Food Bank. LUCAP will launch its own drive to fight world hunger Monday. Loyola's hunger awareness project, which is sponsorerd by LUCAP and endorsed by the Loyola Union, the Black Student Union, the International Student Association, the Inter- Fraternity Council, Campus Ministry and the Student Government Association, has been designated a national model project for other colleges. The project begins Sunday with hunger related liturgies. Also, booths will be set up in the Danna Center throughout the week to collect donations of money, food coupons and clothing to help All the ship. Monday will mark LUCAP's annual Third World Luncheon. The 12:30 p.m. luncheon is a role-playing activity designed to help people understand the world hunger situation, Herbers said. During the activity, people will be divided into three groups and receive a lunch according to the world which they are in. Tickets for the activity are $2. Tuesday night keynote speakers for the week, former Jamaican prime minister, Michael Manley, and Starvation Awareness Day founder Suzanne Wallace, a Loyola graduate, will speak in Nunemaker Hall. Manley, whose scheduled appearance triggered lengthy debate in the SGA two weeks ago, will give a Third World perspective, according to LUCAP. He will present a history of Third World nations which have previously been subserviant to First World powers. Director of LUCAP Dan Sifferlin said that Manley will speak about the economic and political roots of hunger. Thursday, national Starvation Awareness Day and the high point of the week according to Herbers, the whole community is asked to fast and donate what would have been eaten to "Fill the Ship." Meal cards and other donations will be accepted during regular lunch and dinner hours at hunger booths in the Danna Center mall. See Bishops/page 6